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Egg Cutlets

Egg cutlets are sliced hard‑boiled eggs coated in beaten egg, fried, and served with savoury rice and tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Egg Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Shell the hard-boiled eggs and cut them into thick slices.

  2. Dip each slice into the beaten egg, seasoned with salt, pepper, and minced parsley.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the slices in oil until light brown, then remove them from the pan immediately.

  2. Drain the cutlets and arrange them around a pyramid of savoury rice.

  3. Pour tomato sauce around the rice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Parsley + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Parsley + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the main body of the cutlet, setting firm when cooked.
Beaten egg
Coats the slices so they hold together and form a binding layer for frying.
Parsley
Adds fresh, green aroma to the seasoned coating.

The step that matters

Removing the cutlets from the pan immediately. Frying until light brown is quick, and leaving slices in hot oil lets the coating darken and dry out further, so they must come out as soon as they reach that colour.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, parsley, rice, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, parsley, rice, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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